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Quote by Ida Tarbell
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he wh

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral. – Ida Tarbell

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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible. – Ida Tarbell

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. – Lewis Mumford

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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. – Joseph Conrad

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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. – John Stuart Mill

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